Asylum seekers and the Federal Government’s policy regarding the managing of arrivals and the processing of claims for refugee status are once again receiving avid media attention. The impact of the detention experience on the detainees themselves, however, has received scant attention in the mainstream media. Our forum will explore this topic with detainees and former detainees together with presentations from Heidi Kleinschmidt and Marnie Williams from ASeTTS. Our key note, Professor Derrick Silove, the Director of the Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit at Liverpool Hospital in New South Wales, specialises in the area of mass trauma, transcultural psychiatry and refugee and post conflict mental health.

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